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2017-12-31: Tracking down the roots of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
2017-12-31: Alan Kay on how to fund research.
2017-12-31: The orgin and constraints of "shitgibbon" compounds.
2017-12-30: The 2017 Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing.
2017-12-30: Dead store elimination (still) considered harmful.
2017-12-30: A history of S_IFMT file types in Unix.
2017-12-30: What were the worst Nobel Prize snubs is science history?
2017-12-30: Programming in the Wild West.
2017-12-29: ECSV: a format for astronomical tables (in CSV) with metadata (in YAML).
2017-12-29: Vim on a mechanical typewriter.
2017-12-29: New Zealand study provides more support for the lead-crime hypothesis.
2017-12-29: PostgreSQL + ZFS best practices.
2017-12-29: Re-examining the scrypt() parameter values.
2017-12-29: The sorry state of OpenSSL usability.
2017-12-29: Legal cannabis isn't the boon small businesses thought it would be.
2017-12-29: Willrow Hood's ice cream machine in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
2017-12-29: SSL Labs grading overhaul preview.
2017-12-28: pg_squeeze: A PostgreSQL extension for automatic bloat cleanup.
2017-12-28: The day zero was banned from British roulette.
2017-12-28: FaCT aka ConstanC: a constant-time programming language.
2017-12-28: FaCT: A flexible and constant-time programming language.
2017-12-27: BT InLink in London: building a privatised "smart city" by stealth.
2017-12-27: How to hack a turned-off computer, or, running unsigned code in Intel ME.
2017-12-27: Macaroons: cookies with contextual caveats for decentralized authorization in the cloud.
2017-12-26: Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet.
2017-12-26: Scientists have found a drug that can repair cavities and regrow teeth.
2017-12-26: Tom Weller's "Science Made Stupid" and "Cvltvre Made Stvpid".
2017-12-26: Evil coding incantations.
2017-12-26: The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis.
2017-12-26: Untangling Jenkins (with Summon and Conjur).
2017-12-26: Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter.
2017-12-24: Formal verification: the gap between perfect code and reality.
2017-12-25: Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability.
2017-12-25: Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply.
2017-12-25: An algorithmic approach to dealing with insomnia.
2017-12-25: The current state of kernel page-table isolation.
2017-12-25: Undefined vs unsafe in Rust.
2017-12-24: "A simple makefile" is a unicorn.
2017-12-24: A list of software that turns your database into a REST or GraphQL API.
2017-12-24: NRT:IT refurbished Dell.
2017-12-24: Eleven Linux syscalls that suck.
2017-12-23: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, reviewed by Adam Roberts.
2017-12-23: Vulnerabilities and exploits: What happened when the infosec community outed its own sexual predators.
2017-12-23: JSON in MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL: few more stories about performance.
2017-12-23: Division by invariant integers using multiplication.
2017-12-23: Why nothing matters: the impact of zero initialization on programming language performance.
2017-12-23: Dropbox releases PyAnnotate: auto-generate type annotations for mypy.
2017-12-23: AVX-512: what's useful for us.
2017-12-23: Let your Python code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyType.
2017-12-23: Why IBM DB2 is four different DBMS code bases.
2017-12-22: Ten lessons a mathematician wished he had been taught.
2017-12-22: Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection for forking processes.
2017-12-21: Start your open-source career.
2017-12-21: Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably.
2017-12-21: Implementing malloc(): an exercise to teach students systems programming.
2017-12-21: systemd-resolved is broken.
2017-12-20: Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's asynchronous I/O framework from the bottom up.
2017-12-20: Salesforce's problems on the way to a near perfect log pipeline.
2017-12-19: Tune ssh settings to speed up Ansible.
2017-12-18: Let it go: the Arctic will never be frozen again.
2017-12-18: Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear: unchecked capitalism vs superintelligent AI.
2017-12-18: Update on the DNSSEC root KSK rollover project for December 2017.
2017-12-18: The first Unix port, to the Interdata 7/32.
2017-12-18: Overture JS: FastMail's web app library.
2017-12-18: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL.
2017-12-18: A modulino is a file that is both script and module in Perl.
2017-12-17: A cheat-sheet for mathematical notation with translations to JavaScript.
2017-12-17: Butch, femme, and the history of lesbian identity.
2017-12-17: Silicon Valley techies still think they're the good guys. They're not.
2017-12-17: Modes, medians, means: a unifying perspective.
2017-12-17: Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?
2017-12-17: A thorough introduction to Apache Kafka.
2017-12-17: Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture, from an infrastructure tooling team at the FT.
2017-12-17: Dance Dance Convolution: automatically generating steps for a rhythm-based video game.
2017-12-16: Dive into BPF: a list of reading material.
2017-12-16: 白左 (baizuo): The curious rise of the ‘white left' as a Chinese internet insult.
2017-12-16: The Emacs calculator: a computer algebra system in your editor.
2017-12-16: RFC 8259: the last JSON spec.
2017-12-16: Introducing stapbpf: SystemTap's new BPF backend.
2017-12-16: Introducing the GoodWatch: A neighborly watch for radio engineers.
2017-12-16: REST is the new SOAP.
2017-12-15: Lessons learned from a DNS registrar account compromise and man-in-the-middle attack.
2017-12-14: A Volvo factory in China is car production heaven.
2017-12-14: Why is giving birth so hard? Revisiting the 'obstetrical dilemma'.
2017-12-14: W3C vs WHATWG. Which gives the most authoritative HTML spec?
2017-12-14: What is the relationship between the W3C and the WHATWG?
2017-12-14: BGP security in partial deployment: is the juice worth the squeeze? (2013)
2017-12-14: Results of New Zealand FOI query about academic journal subscription costs.
2017-12-12: Software compatibility and lld's autoconf "User-Agent" problem.
2017-12-13: XSS vulnerabilities in web sites that display x.509 TLS certificate details.
2017-12-13: London Underground map translated into German / Londoner U-Bahn-Plan ins Deutsche übersetzt.
2017-12-12: Internet protocols are changing: HTTP/2, TLS/1.3, QUIC, DoH.
2017-12-12: Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together in 1800s America.
2017-12-13: TP-Link repeater firmware squanders 715 MB/month of DNS and NTP traffic.
2017-12-12: It's official: ADSL works over wet string.
2017-12-12: Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again.
2017-12-13: Monitoring PostgreSQL replication lag.
2017-12-12: 100baseT Ethernet: so good, it works over barbed wire.
2017-12-12: The ROBOT attack on RSA in TLS: return of Bleichenbacher's oracle threat.
2017-12-12: AMD is at last releasing its open source Vulkan driver.
2017-12-12: High-level problems with Git and how to fix them.
2017-12-12: Why do asteroids explode high in the atmosphere?
2017-12-11: An intellectual property rights (IPR) policy and governance structure for the WHATWG.
2017-12-12: The GoodWatch: a Casio calculator watch containing hex editor, disassembler, and ham radio.
2017-12-11: On the value of EV x.509 TLS certificates.
2017-12-11: The numbers of women in tech rise and fall, but sexual harassment is ever present.
2017-12-11: The case for machine learning index structures instead of B-trees or hash tables.
2017-12-11: Half of Kenya's electricity comes from geothermal energy.
2017-12-11: How to make an atomic clock from N@C60, a nitrogen atom in a carbon fullerene cage.
2017-12-11: NASA to test prototype Kilopower nuclear reactor intended for missions to Mars.
2017-12-11: Thinking about hardware support for virtualization.
2017-12-11: When did Italian become the language of Italy?
2017-12-11: A collection of magic "nothing up my sleeve" numbers in cryptographic algorithms.
2017-12-10: Alaskan North Slope climate change just outran one of our tools to measure it.
2017-12-11: Design Principles.
2017-12-10: How a CogSci undergrad invented PageRank three years before Google.
2017-12-10: Golang tooling essentials: useful flags and options.
2017-12-10: About 34% of legitimate E-Passports have flaws preventing verification.
2017-12-10: AWS DNS services break qname minimization.
2017-12-10: Falsehoods programmers believe about programming.
2017-12-10: The Freiburg cup: a solution to single-use coffee cups.
2017-12-10: Measuring asymmetric DOCSIS latency via NTP.
2017-12-10: Global powers lobby to stop special Brexit deal for UK.
2017-12-10: Line Rider in the Hall of the Mountain King. (YouTube)
2017-12-10: iPhone slow? Try replacing your battery!
2017-12-10: Notes on postmodern programming.
2017-12-10: Kerberos: why the world moved on.
2017-12-09: The remarkable "curvature blindness" illusion.
2017-12-09: 1.4 billion clear text credentials discovered in a single database.
2017-12-09: An interview with Xavier Leroy.
2017-12-09: This is just to say we have explained the plum jokes in your Twitter feed.
2017-12-08: Rust-inspired safe pointers in SPARK Ada 2014.
2017-12-08: Make it Simple: a tale about Robert Dewar, Ada, and gnat.
2017-12-08: Decoding an air conditioner remote control's checksum with differential cryptanalysis.
2017-12-08: Sending infrared commands from a Raspberry Pi without LIRC.
2017-12-08: Google is likely to have its LIDAR patents invalidated, hindering its lawsuit against Uber.
2017-12-08: What have we learned from the PDP-11?
2017-12-08: A PostgreSQL / Pacemaker outage report.
2017-12-07: 3D printed objects that can connect to WiFi without electronics.
2017-12-07: Portugal's radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn't the world copied it?
2017-12-07: Neurotypical peers are less willing to interact with those with Autism based on thin slice judgments.
2017-12-07: Google's AlphaZero beats Stockfish in 100-game match after spending 4 hours teaching itself chess.
2017-12-06: The story of the crookneck / handled ancient American watermelon.
2017-12-07: Rust code organization: modules, crates, etc.
2017-12-06: Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite.
2017-12-06: Denial by DNS: Uber learns painfully and laboriously how not to write an asynchronous resolver.
2017-12-06: Introducing "British Economic Time" aka "Sunrise Time", the ultimate astronomy geek timezone.
2017-12-06: AlphaZero achieves in 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess, shogi, and Go.
2017-12-06: Electronic Arts is addicted to Wilson loot boxes.
2017-12-06: How Diesel autogenerates a Rust API from a database schema.
2017-12-06: Are X.509 EV certificates worth the paper they're written on?
2017-12-05: Announcing cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s: IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes networking in AWS.
2017-12-05: The mystery of the blend: the blender file format explained.
2017-12-05: AWS EC2 virtualization 2017: introducing Nitro.
2017-12-04: Connected toys: France serves formal notice to cease serious breach of privacy because of a lack of security.
2017-12-04: Debugging an evil Golang runtime bug.
2017-12-04: Planning to rewrite parts of Mercurial in Rust.
2017-12-04: Hands-on with the PocketBeagle: a $25 Linux computer with lots of I/O pins.
2017-12-04: How to use Git hooks to version control your Excel VBA code.
2017-12-04: The Stretcher Railing Society: preserving WWII artifacts hidden in plain sight around London.
2017-12-04: How Google manages 250,000 desktop/laptop computers securely and efficiently.
2017-12-04: "Metalenses" created with photolithography could change the nature of imaging and optical processing.
2017-12-04: End of privacy rights in the UK public sector?
2017-12-04: Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, and turn a conversation around.
2017-12-04: DNS resolver latency (cache hit rate) vs query rate.
2017-12-04: ffwd: delegation to another thread instead of locking is (much) faster than you think.
2017-12-04: Psychological safety in operations teams.
2017-12-04: Metro map colour-coding: effect on usability in route tracing.
2017-12-03: Dice become ordered when stirred, not shaken.
2017-12-03: Fool Britannia: the future of the UK has never looked so grim.
2017-12-03: How I convinced my 1987 Canon Cat to talk to my 2017 MacBook Pro.
2017-12-03: Criterion: statistics-driven micro-benchmarking for Rust.
2017-12-03: DNS for Tor exit nodes.
2017-12-02: Not your parent's analog computer.
2017-12-02: A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates.
2017-12-02: Homeowners trapped by ‘fleecehold', the new cash cow for property developers.
2017-12-02: Blockchain graveyard.
2017-12-02: Sex isn't chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X and Y.
2017-12-02: Hisako Koyama: an amateur astronomer who was one of the greatest solar observers.
2017-12-02: Python library API checklist.
2017-12-02: Creating a range in JavaScript, cleverly.
2017-12-02: The Icelandic translation of Dracula is actually a different book.
2017-12-02: A clever line of JavaScript.
2017-12-01: How Etsy caches: consistent hashing, Ketama, and cache smearing.
2017-11-22: I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f'd up is that?
2017-11-24: Saudi Arabia's Arab Spring, at last.
2017-12-01: DNS TTL violations in the wild, measured with RIPE Atlas.
2017-12-01: Write your next Ethereum contract in Pyramid Scheme.
2017-12-01: The LEGO storage guide.
2017-12-01: Git PSA: git-rev-parse.
2017-11-30: Twenty Toes: juggling with hands and feet. (Vimeo)
2017-11-30: Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058.
2017-11-29: Drawing fractal Droste images: spirals inside Mandelbrots!
2017-11-29: Object models in Python 3, Lua, JavaScript, and Perl 5.
2017-11-29: ISPS: hardware decription languages before VHDL.
2017-11-29: Why an empty password gets you root on macOS High Sierra.
2017-11-29: Exploring the BBC micro:bit software stack.
2017-11-29: The numbers that show SNCF, France's proud rail service is struggling.
2017-11-29: The Irish and Belgian approaches to Brexit.
2017-11-28: tenta-dns: Recursive and authoritative DNS server in golang, with DNSSEC, DNS-over-TLS, and BGP anycast.
2017-11-28: PostgreSQL auto_explain: analyzing the performance of millions of unique SQL queries.
2017-11-28: DNS-over-TLS at SURFnet.
2017-11-28: pgDoctor: PostgreSQL healthchecks for load balancers.
2017-11-28: Bitcoin and that 1929 vibe.
2017-11-28: Photovoltaic growth: reality versus projections of the International Energy Agency.
2017-11-28: Format oracle attacks against OpenPGP and GnuPG.
2017-11-28: … Then you win.
2017-11-28: A sense of units and scale for electrical energy production and consumption.
2017-11-27: Drawing from noise with Processing, and making animated loopy GIFs.
2017-11-27: Horwood's plan of London, 1792 - 1799.
2017-11-27: SPIFFE: standards for securely identifying software systems in dynamic and heterogeneous production environments .
2017-11-27: VPN DNS leak test.
2017-11-27: Inside Docker's "FROM scratch" empty container.
2017-11-27: What Bikini Atoll looks like today.
2017-11-27: A minimalist guide to tmux.
2017-11-26: Why Amazon DynamoDB isn't for everyone.
2017-11-26: Unit testing doesn't affect codebases the way you might expect.
2017-11-26: A review of some Amazon HQ2 bids shows that democracy itself is a bargaining chip.
2017-11-26: Legatum: who are the Brexiteers' favourite think tank and who is behind them?
2017-11-26: Lively Linear Lisp: 'Look Ma, no garbage!'
2017-11-26: LIL: the little implementation language (and other mid-level languages).
2017-11-26: Carp: a Lisp with Rust-like memory management.
2017-11-25: Asbestos and the great Aussie DIY obsession: the impending killer 'third wave'.
2017-11-25: Rob Pike's 5 rules of programming.
2017-11-25: No end in sight to the Brexit madness.
2017-11-25: Incremental data capture for Oracle databases at LinkedIn.
2017-11-25: Using a logbook to improve your programming.
2017-11-24: How the sandwich consumed Britain.
2017-11-25: Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles.
2017-11-25: SOLID principles made easy.
2017-11-25: In search of the perfect writing font.
2017-11-25: Hexagonal Architecture: a mobile app case study.
2017-11-25: VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code.
2017-11-24: In the Jungle: inside the long hidden genealogy of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'.
2017-11-24: Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game.
2017-11-24: No boundaries: key logging and exfiltration of personal data by web site session-replay scripts.
2017-11-24: MySQL performance tuning and Linux context switches.
2017-11-24: Our computer systems are not good enough. (YouTube)
2017-11-24: Observations of an ex pat: the Middle East explained.
2017-11-24: The financial realities of going viral.
2017-11-24: Make: shows how to apologise properly.
2017-11-24: Why the world has so many Guineas.
2017-11-24: Ada: There's a mini-RTOS in my language.
2017-11-22: breezy: a fork of bzr for Python 3 support.
2017-11-23: Common issues with PostgreSQL planner statistics.
2017-11-23: Better random number generation for OpenSSL, glibc, and Linux.
2017-11-23: How tuning PostgreSQL for SSDs can improve slow query performance by 50x.
2017-11-23: Draft revision of ISO 8601-201x with EDTF extended date/time formats.
2017-11-23: PostgreSQL configuration tuning for humans.
2017-11-22: Do no harm: Linus on the tension between kernel security and system reliability.
2017-11-23: Road design: sustainable safety vs shared space.
2017-11-23: WIPEONFORK in Linux 4.14.
2017-11-22: Why git is worse than Fossil.
2017-11-22: Beauty shots of (moderately) retro computers.
2017-11-22: Thoughts on Fossil-NG.
2017-11-22: Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Golang.
2017-11-22: Announcing failure: error handling for Rust.
2017-11-22: What happens when a woman translates Homer's Odyssey.
2017-11-22: True Kilts: debunking myths about highlanders and clan tartans.
2017-11-22: Milksnake: ship Python wheels written in Rust without linking to libpython.
2017-11-21: How many colours were there in a medieval rainbow?
2017-11-21: ESO observations show first known interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before.
2017-11-21: Development progress of Language Server Protocol compatible editors and language servers.
2017-11-21: When a Phillips is not a Phillips! A zoo of screwdrivers.
2017-11-21: Has web advertising jumped the shark?
2017-11-21: EU Horizon Prize: seamless IoT/cloud authentication for all.
2017-11-21: OpenSSI: single system image distributed clusters for Linux.
2017-11-21: Understanding `git filter-branch` and the git storage model.
2017-11-21: cquery: a highly-scalable, low-latency VS Code language server for C/C++.
2017-11-21: Shaping the World. (PyCon UK keynote)
2017-11-20: Leapseconds and earthquakes: 2018 predicted to be a year of big quakes as Earth rotation slows.
2017-11-20: Why clocks run clockwise, and some watches and clocks that don't.
2017-11-19: Typesetting the 1973 4th edition Unix programmer's manual.
2017-11-19: From War to Worboys: the redesign of British road signs in the early 1960s.
2017-11-19: Dark matter does not form a disk.
2017-11-19: Span types for raw memory slices in C#.
2017-11-19: Some birds use discarded cigarettes to fumigate their nests.
2017-11-19: Security things in Linux v4.14.
2017-11-19: Orcas vs great white sharks: in a battle of the apex predators who wins?
2017-11-18: Everything you need to know about Lexit in five minutes.
2017-11-18: 20 feet vs 178000 miles: a stupidly long network route.
2017-11-18: The mystery of the phantom scientific journal reference.
2017-11-18: The rise and fall of the complex sentence.
2017-11-18: Bufferbloat on the Internet backbone.
2017-11-17: Formula 1 race car aerofoils keep cold air inside supermarket chillers.
2017-11-17: Graphing the Analytics Package at Amazon: Remove the legend to become one.
2017-11-17: FreeBSD/EC2 on AWS C5 instances.
2017-11-17: Christopher Tolkien has resigned as director of the Tolkien estate.
2017-11-16: Experience with viruses on UNIX systems. (1989)
2017-11-16: KAISER: hiding the Linux kernel from user space.
2017-11-16: Puffs: a domain-specific language and library for parsing untrusted file formats safely.
2017-11-16: Plan 28 Autumn 2017 report on progress analysing Babbage's analytical engine manuscripts.
2017-11-15: Fairchild F9445 MicroFlame: a clone of the Data General Nova.
2017-11-15: Keeping a lab notebook: basic principles and best practices.
2017-11-15: Oberon: the overlooked jewel.
2017-11-15: NumPy's plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by 2020.
2017-11-15: All of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux.
2017-11-15: Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases.
2017-11-15: What did 17th century food taste like?
2017-11-14: Report from the SNAFUcatchers workshop on coping with complexity.
2017-11-14: Finding the right color palettes for data visualizations.
2017-11-13: uPyPhone: a GSM phone using MicroPython, PyBoard, and SIM800L.
2017-11-13: The post-Weinstein reckoning.
2017-11-13: Against brilliant jerks.
2017-11-13: Verfploeter: broad and load-aware anycast mapping.
2017-11-13: Physics has demoted mass.
2017-11-13: Long-term coffee consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease.
2017-11-13: Vitamin D and cancer prevention.
2017-11-13: Time zones, daylight saving, and cancer risk.
2017-11-13: target="_blank": an underestimated vulnerability.
2017-11-13: Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ.
2017-11-13: Trip report: Fall 2017 ISO C++ standards meeting (Albuquerque).
2017-11-13: RISC-V processor research at IIT-Madras.
2017-11-12: Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant: a GSM device hidden in a USB cable.
2017-11-12: Google's approach to observability across microservices.
2017-11-12: Medieval price list.
2017-11-12: Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757.
2017-11-12: Shadow Brokers security breaches and spilled secrets have shaken the NSA to its core.
2017-11-12: Gallery of missing data visualisations.
2017-11-11: Take it from the Swiss: the Brexit referendum wasn't legitimate.
2017-11-11: Fire and ice: Mapping the magma flow to Antarctica's most active volcano.
2017-11-11: A computer scientist who prefers voting on paper.
2017-11-11: Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies.
2017-11-11: Real-time GPU texture-mapped vector glyphs.
2017-11-11: The shape of Rome.
2017-11-11: Explanation of the OVH Strasbourg outage.
2017-11-11: Burn the programmer!
2017-11-11: How can liberalism be to blame for everything when we can't even agree what it is?
2017-11-10: Cursive handwriting and other education myths.
2017-11-10: All you need to know about whiteboard markers.
2017-11-10: CEOs don't steer.
2017-11-10: An evening with Berferd, in which a cracker is lured, endured, and studied.
2017-11-10: The fungus that turns ants into zombies is more diabolical than we realized.
2017-11-09: FastNetMon DDoS detection tool.
2017-11-09: Exponential generic type expansion in the C# compiler.
2017-11-09: America's "retail apocalypse" is really just beginning.
2017-11-09: .NET/C# generics history: some photos from Feb 1999.
2017-11-09: Curiouser and curiouser: recursive generic types in C#.
2017-11-09: Scientists on new supernova: WTF have we been looking at?
2017-11-08: This fungus has over 20,000 sexes.
2017-11-08: ARM takes wing: benchmarking Qualcomm vs. Intel CPUs.
2017-11-08: Perfect locality for listening sockets, and three epic SystemTap scripts.
2017-11-08: Andrew S Tanenbaum on the use of Minix in the Intel ME.
2017-11-08: The 10 top recommendations for the AI/ML field in 2017.
2017-11-08: CSS Flexbox and Grids, your layout's best friends.
2017-11-08: Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
2017-11-08: Some problems of URLs.
2017-11-08: Get up to speed with JANET's faster DDoS protection services.
2017-11-08: HotPlug: remove a running computer without shutting it down.
2017-11-07: Update on the DNSSEC root KSK rollover project.
2017-11-07: Against ORMs.
2017-11-06: subjack: hostile subdomain takeover vulnerability scanning tool written in Golang.
2017-11-06: Beyond Horizons: 443km world record of distant landscape photography.
2017-11-06: Configure / metaconfig at the 2017 Perl 5 core hackathon.
2017-11-05: Visiting Lord's Bridge: the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory near Cambridge.
2017-11-05: Contributor Covenant: a code of conduct for open source projects.
2017-11-05: Reconstructing ROCA.
2017-11-04: Collapsing towers of interpreters.
2017-11-04: "The warhead is no longer on top of the missile." A nuclear accident in 1964.
2017-11-04: Logstalgia: replay or stream website access logs as a retro arcade game.
2017-11-04: Playing with Wolfram playing cards.
2017-11-04: CERTSTREAM: see certificate transparency list updates as X.509 certs are issued in real time.
2017-11-04: Identifying the "Early IBM Computer" in a Twitter photo: a 405 Accounting Machine.
2017-11-04: CT Advisor: Certificate Transparency monitoring and alerts.
2017-11-03: DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram.
2017-11-03: Software matters in the world: work on fixing the big bugs.
2017-11-03: FOSSology: open source license compliance toolkit.
2017-11-03: Strava's global heatmap, now 6x hotter.
2017-11-02: The return of Coppersmith's attack: practical factorization of widely used RSA moduli.
2017-11-02: What's new in HAProxy 1.8.
2017-11-02: Linux containers in 500 lines of code.
2017-11-02: How the Guardian found 800,000 paying readers.
2017-11-02: A minimalist guide to SQLite.
2017-11-02: Data classes for Java.
2017-11-02: The new thermodynamics: how quantum physics is bending the rules.
2017-11-02: m.css math: a Pelican plugin to render TeX to SVG on the server.
2017-11-02: 95 theses about technology.
2017-11-01: Coders of the world, unite: can Silicon Valley workers curb the power of Big Tech?
2017-11-01: Git delta amplification.
2017-11-01: My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container.
2017-10-31: Sequent calculus and linear logic: The Blind Spot and the cut rule.
2017-10-31: The habitat of hardware bugs.
2017-10-31: How the monstrous Weierstrass function paved the way for modern math.
2017-10-31: Debug information is huge and what to do about it.
2017-10-31: Perl is the most disliked programming language.
2017-10-31: Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930): A lady logician.
2017-10-31: State of the OpenVMS port to x86-64.
2017-10-31: fixie tries: a popcount trie implemented in Rust.
2017-10-31: Approximate frequency counts over data streams.
2017-10-31: Dataviz project: a collection of data visualizations to get inspired and find the right type.
2017-10-31: Why are so many new and expectant mothers dying in the US?
2017-10-31: Cray: how to program a supercomputer.
2017-10-31: Most websites don't need to vibrate: a cost-benefit approach to improving browser security.
2017-10-31: Same stats, different graphs: manipulating datasets through simulated annealing.
2017-10-30: Scaling the GitLab PostgreSQL database.
2017-10-30: Near future of programming languages.
2017-10-30: Colliding neutron stars are "standard sirens" that tell us how fast the universe is expanding.
2017-10-30: Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs.
2017-10-30: Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS.
2017-10-29: The meaning of Google AMP.
2017-10-29: The Internet Worm of 1988.
2017-10-29: Stealing Amazon EC2 keys via an XSS vulnerability.
2017-10-29: Better than rainbows: matplotlib alternative colourblind-aware colourmaps.
2017-10-29: Some of the world's biggest energy storage schemes.
2017-10-29: The cubehelix colour scheme.
2017-10-29: How to monkey-patch the Linux kernel with systemtap.
2017-10-29: Replace your exploit-ridden Intel x86 firmware with a Linux kernel
2017-10-29: Antarctica's illicit Ingress scene
2017-10-28: Slack SAML authentication bypass vulnerability.
2017-10-28: I watched all of the Chrome Dev Summit 2017 videos so you don't have to.
2017-10-23: UCAS statistics: Is there bias in university admissions?
2017-10-24: The future of DNSSEC at the RIPE NCC.
2017-10-27: It's getting clearer: the diet-cancer connection points to sugar and carbs.
2017-10-27: Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in PostgreSQL.
2017-10-26: High-performance GPU computing in the Julia programming language.
2017-10-27: TLS-N: non-repudiation of data served over TLS.
2017-10-27: Automatically submitting your Internet-Draft from GitHub.
2017-10-27: Disk|Crypt|Net: rethinking the stack for high-performance video streaming.
2017-10-25: More taste, less greed? or, sending UNIX to the fat farm.
2017-10-24: On the passive measurability of RTT/loss of QUIC traffic.
2017-10-27: Titan: the poor man's Atlas?
2017-10-27: Who guards the guards? Formal validation of the ARM v8-M architecture specification.
2017-10-22: Sugar is a toxic agent that creates conditions for disease.
2017-10-25: Short-lived certificates at Netflix.
2017-10-25: Papers on virtual memory and working sets.
2017-10-25: A software-based approach to identify heavy hitters in 10Gbit/s DNS traffic.
2017-10-18: mod_md: ACME support for the Apache httpd.
2017-10-25: Testing DNSSEC public keys for the ROCA vulnerability.
2017-10-22: Android getting support for DNS over TLS.
2017-10-24: The mathematics of 2048: counting states with combinatorics.
2017-10-24: Executive function impairment in high-IQ adults with ADHD.
2017-10-21: co2: an object system for C.
2017-10-24: First Timers Only: friendly open source projects reserve specific issues for new contributors.
2017-10-24: Infineon ROCA: Welp, there go my Git signatures.
2017-10-25: Amazon Aurora: design considerations for high throughput cloud-native relational databases.
2017-10-25: Why do so few black students go to Oxbridge?
2017-10-25: All you ever wanted to know about dynamic taint analysis and forward symbolic execution (but might have been afraid to ask).
2017-10-25: One-level storage system: virtual memory on the Manchester Ferranti Atlas.
2017-10-25: ZFSin: OpenZFS ported to Windows.
2017-10-25: TimescaleDB: PostgreSQL made scalable for time-series data.
2017-10-25: I deb, you deb, everybody debs: Debian packaging for beginners and experts alike.
2017-10-21: Google's quantum computing plans upended by IBM's 56 qubit classical computing simulation.
2017-10-25: IP addresses considered harmful.
2017-10-23: Danish numbers are obscurely 20-based.
2017-10-25: Don't use a pencil: a key to Brexit's Russian bots.
2017-10-20: Female homicide rate dropped 17% after Craigslist launched its erotic services platform.
2017-10-25: Barbarian: a sword font.
2017-10-23: The Atlas of the Underworld shows Earth's interior is teeming with dead plates.
2017-10-23: Filesystem error handling / improving error checking in C / funding robustness research.
2017-10-25: One Debian developer's preferred packaging setup.
2017-10-24: Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?
2017-10-24: How to write a stunt server using raw sockets in IPv6.
2017-10-24: Recent IETF BGP work addressing operational challenges.
2017-10-24: cronic: a cure for chronic cron spam.
2017-10-24: Buffer overflow in musl-libc DNS response parser.
2017-10-24: How Merkle trees enable the decentralized web.
2017-10-22: A README maturity model.
2017-10-23: The DUHK attack: don't use hard-coded keys for RNG seeds.
2017-10-24: What everybody gets wrong about Jekyll and Hyde.
2017-10-22: Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television.
2017-10-24: Surviving IPv6 fragmentation.
2017-10-24: A history of the ampersand.
2017-10-22: The self-referential functional option pattern in Golang.
2017-10-23: Genode: a capability-oriented microkernel OS.
2017-10-24: Introduction to the Zig programming language: "more pragmatic than C".
2017-10-18: Exploring lock-free Rust: from locks, via atomics, to Crossbeam.
2017-10-21: IPv6 Buddy: a keyboard for typing hex.
2017-10-23: DéjàVu: a map of code duplication on GitHub.
2017-10-22: Reusable and type-safe functional options for Golang APIs.
2017-10-23: This is what the no-deal Brexit cliff edge looks like.
2017-10-18: ML modules and Haskell type classes: a constructive comparison.
2017-10-24: IPv6 prefix assignment for end-users: persistent vs non-persistent, and what size to choose.
2017-10-19: Browser security beyond sandboxing: Microsoft exploits Google Chrome.
2017-10-23: Manipulating Maintainers: how to persuade members of an open source community to help you.
2017-10-23: .Amsterdam refuses to publish Whois records as ICANN whois GDPR row escalates.
2017-10-22: zsync: download files over http using the rsync algorithm.
2017-10-21: Nationalisation of Carlisle pubs during the First World War.
2017-10-22: Successful hotfire test of Blue Origin BE-4 reusable high-thrust rocket engine.
2017-10-22: How did Arron Banks afford to bankroll Brexit?
2017-10-23: ChrysaLisp: TAOS-flavoured parallel OS, with GUI, terminal, OO assembler, class libraries, C-Script, and more...
2017-10-19: X.org server for Android.
2017-10-19: Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
2017-10-23: Best trackballs 2017.
2017-10-20: How I socially engineer myself into high security facilities.
2017-10-19: Hey Siri: an on-device DNN-powered voice trigger for Apple's personal assistant.
2017-10-19: Objective-C and fork() in macOS 10.13.
2017-10-20: Pointer free programming and the future of Nim.
2017-10-19: Ad industry insiders profited from ad fraud scheme that stole $millions.
2017-10-19: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app.
2017-10-18: The mathematical genius of Auto-Tunea.
2017-10-17: Fact check markup: explain to Google what claims are true or false.
2017-10-21: Autodesk Recap360: turn photos into 3D models.
2017-10-21: Don't style your marketing emails.
2017-10-17: TAOS Operating System.
2017-10-22: MENACE: machine educable noughts and crosses engine, a matchboxes-and-beads computer.
2017-10-19: Over 30,000 published studies could be wrong due to contaminated cells.
2017-10-21: The largest left truncatable prime.
2017-10-21: Object oriented programming in C.
2017-10-17: End all immigration controls: they're a sign we value money more than people.
2017-10-21: Vikings razed the forests. Can Iceland regrow them?
2017-10-21: Battle with a phantom PostgreSQL WAL segment.
2017-10-21: Object-oriented programming in ANSI C.
2017-10-17: ROCA: critical vulnerability in Infineon security chips.
2017-10-18: AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch.
2017-10-21: The rise and fall of the Lyons' Cornerhouses and their Nippy waitresses.
2017-10-19: Why Ruby app servers break on macOS High Sierra: fork safety in Objective C frameworks.
2017-10-21: Some examples of historical music notation.
2017-10-15: How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece .
2017-10-15: Help test out ThinLTO! Another feature aiming to reduce Rust's compile times.
2017-10-15: Beyond XX and XY: the extraordinary complexity of sex determination.
2017-10-15: Switching from Common Lisp to Julia.
2017-10-15: The Journal of Open Source Software: a developer friendly journal for research software packages
2017-10-15: Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography.
2017-10-14: The impossible dream of USB-C.
2017-10-14: Interactive scientific computing, Goldilocks languages, and Julia.
2017-10-14: Some insights from a Julia developer.
2017-10-14: I'm an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here's why.
2017-10-14: 5 things we learned from Google Waymo's self-driving car NTSB report.
2017-10-14: Why the assholes are winning: money trumps all.
2017-10-14: Is the inflationary universe a scientific theory?
2017-10-14: By analysing hundreds of police interviews, two scientists have revolutionised interrogation.
2017-10-13: freno: mitigating MySQL replication lag and reducing read load at GitHub.
2017-10-13: Reverse proxy grapher.
2017-10-13: Exploding Git repository: a billion blobs.
2017-10-12: Notable features in C++17.
2017-10-11: ADHD: a lifelong struggle.
2017-10-11: Reasons Kubernetes is cool.
2017-10-11: Block comments considered harmful.
2017-10-11: A template for a run book / system operation manual.
2017-10-11: Disabling the Intel Management Engine.
2017-10-11: PACELC, Hazelcast, and the mythical PA/EC system.
2017-10-10: Fake crypto: Microsoft Outlook S/MIME cleartext disclosure.
2017-10-10: Macro-less code execution with DDE in Microsoft Word.
2017-10-10: A bug has no name: multiple heap buffer overflows in the Windows DNS client.
2017-10-10: Coding style as a failure of language design.
2017-10-10: The asynchronous computability theorem: applying topology to distributed systems.
2017-10-10: The absurdly underestimated dangers of spreadsheet compromise via CSV injection.
2017-10-10: A decade of Amazon Dynamo.
2017-10-09: Breaking Ed25519 in WolfSSL using differential power analysis.
2017-10-09: "Peer review" is younger than you might think. Does that mean it can go away?
2017-10-08: Fairchild Semiconductor: the 60th anniversary of a Silicon Valley legend.
2017-10-08: Thoughts on Microsoft's time-travel debugger.
2017-10-08: The story behind the photo of the Lightning crash at Hatfield in 1962.
2017-10-08: How to avoid unwanted wakeups when killing lots of processes.
2017-10-07: A branchless UTF-8 decoder.
2017-10-07: What even is compiler correctness?
2017-10-07: iOS 11's misleading "off-ish" setting for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is bad for security and battery life.
2017-10-06: Fast JVM startup with JDK 9.
2017-10-05: The magic phrase, "we don't do that here."
2017-10-04: The story behind ICANN's decision to delay the DNSSEC root KSK rollover.
2017-10-04: The undercover story of the Chicago newspaper that bought a bar.
2017-10-05: HoTTSQL: proving query rewrites with univalent SQL semantics.
2017-10-04: Brexit will hit Britain's overseas territories hard. Why is no one talking about it?
2017-10-04: Using an iPad Pro instead of a desktop computer.
2017-10-04: Common Lisp vs Racket vs Gerbil.
2017-10-04: Sequent NUMA-Q: a new commercial parallel-processing architecture. (1999)
2017-10-04: Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra.
2017-10-04: Beauty in mathematics: modular multiplication tables.
2017-10-03: In 1973, I invented a ‘girly drink' called Baileys.
2017-10-04: 8th: a gentle introduction to a modern Forth.
2017-10-04: Cashing in on ATM malware: a comprehensive look at various attack types.
2017-10-04: Gerbil Scheme has a state of the art macro and module system on top of the Gambit runtime.
2017-10-04: Random cyclic curves in the complex plane.
2017-10-04: Compiling switch/case: Are jump tables always fastest?
2017-10-04: Times tables, Mandelbrot, and the heart of mathematics. (YouTube)
2017-10-03: Not all disagreements are opportunities to change your own mind.
2017-10-03: What Tesla's big battery in South Australia is for.
2017-10-02: Mitogen: an infrastructure code baseline that sucks less, or, why Ansible is slow.
2017-10-02: Probot: GitHub apps to automate and improve your workflow.
2017-10-02: Troubleshooting: a journey through Bird, HAProxy, cURL, and the Linux dentry cache.
2017-10-02: RELAY: past, present, and future. (1987)
2017-10-02: Toward a predictive-processing theory of depression.
2017-10-02: No brogrammers: Practical tips for writing inclusive job ads.
2017-10-02: Advanced secondary DNS for the technically inclined.
2017-10-02: What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science, and how to fix it.
2017-10-01: Haxl: a big hammer for concurrency. (YouTube)
2017-10-01: How deeply are STEM students learning? They often guess and merely manipulate symbols without insight.
2017-10-01: DNA from old skeleton suggests humanity's been here longer than we thought.
2017-10-01: How science saved me from pretending to love wine.
2017-09-30: What's In the Cache? DNS cache hit rates.
2017-09-30: Cache effect of shared DNS resolver.
2017-09-30: BotDigger: Detecting DGA bots in a single network using DNS traffic.
2017-09-30: Bad autoconf tests with nested functions are incompatible with clang.
2017-09-30: Why are Nazis so afraid of clowns?
2017-09-30: RFC 7706 vs RFC 8198 for root DNS zone performance and resilience.
2017-09-30: A look at RFC 8145 DNSSEC trust anchor signalling.
2017-09-30: BIND 9.12 refactoring and performance improvements.
2017-09-29: The pragmatic case for moving Britain's capital to Manchester.
2017-09-29: Serving 100 Gbps from a Netflix FreeBSD Open Connect Appliance.
2017-09-29: What happened to the folding UK plug?
2017-09-28: Identifying satellite interference due to GSM rebroadcast.
2017-09-28: DNS for service discovery in HAProxy.
2017-09-28: Background information on the DNSSEC root key rollover postponement.
2017-09-28: We need to talk about TLS session tickets.
2017-09-28: When filters fail: These cases show we can't trust algorithms to clean up the internet.
2017-09-28: How Crossrail is using 3D-printing to build its stations.
2017-09-28: DNSSEC KSK rollover postponed.
2017-09-28: HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing!
2017-09-28: Languages don't all have the same number of terms for colors. Here's a new theory why.
2017-09-28: detect.location: getting iOS location data via photo EXIF access.
2017-09-28: Software is a long con.
2017-09-28: ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit.
2017-09-27: Ed25519 for DNSSEC.
2017-09-27: Flags are not languages.
2017-09-27: git git git git git
2017-09-27: BOOMv2: an open-source out-of-order RISC V core.
2017-09-27: Feminism, equality, chattels, and judgement.
2017-09-27: The history of Sears predicts almost everything Amazon is doing.
2017-09-26: Comparing differential equation solvers in C, Fortran, Julia, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, and R.
2017-09-26: Cloudflare Geo Key Manager: identity-based encryption for private keys in a TLS CDN.
2017-09-26: cloudflare/bn256 implements a particular bilinear group at the 128-bit security level, ~10x or ~20x faster.
2017-09-25: Mathematics and the state of being stuck.
2017-09-25: Org-mode is one of the most reasonable lightweight markup languages.
2017-09-25: A quick introduction to Graphviz.
2017-09-25: Antifragility 101.
2017-09-24: The Canpaign for North Africa: a notorious board game that takes 1,500 hours to complete.
2017-09-24: Branded in memory: how well can people draw a logo from memory?
2017-09-23: Franchise: an open source in-browser SQL notebook.
2017-09-23: lnav: a log file navigator.
2017-09-23: APFS: a backup software developer's perspective.
2017-09-23: GPS without COCOM limits.
2017-09-23: Super-accurate GPS chips coming to smartphones in 2018.
2017-09-22: How Portugal is winning the War on Drugs that the USA is losing.
2017-09-22: API Monitor: spy on Windows API calls and COM interfaces.
2017-09-22: Time to speak up for Article 15 of the E-commerce Directive.
2017-09-22: How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk.
2017-09-22: Implementing Berkeley sockets in System V release 4.
2017-09-22: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason": a simulation.
2017-09-22: Seveneves and the Roche limit.
2017-09-22: Golang: Ten years and climbing.
2017-09-21: Weather forecasting is better than it's ever been.
2017-09-21: The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces, whose penises do not grow until puberty.
2017-09-21: Locks, Little's Law, and the universal scalability law.
2017-09-21: Effects without monads: non-determinism.
2017-09-21: CLKSCREW: attacking ARM TrustZone using security-oblivious energy management.
2017-09-21: Parents, children, CDS/CDNSKEY records, and dnssec-cds.
2017-09-21: Booleans and enums.
2017-09-21: Measuring the security of closed DNS resolvers by probing via SMTP.
2017-09-20: jwz: "HTML email, was that your fault?"
2017-09-21: Inception drive: a compact, infinitely variable transmission for robotics.
2017-09-21: Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's control center doesn't actually turn them off.
2017-09-20: Clocks and hardware design for software engineers.
2017-09-20: A rare peek inside a 400Gbit/s Cisco network processor.
2017-09-20: Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing?
2017-09-20: Allocation efficiency in high-performance Golang services.
2017-09-20: A longitudinal, end-to-end view of the DNSSEC ecosystem.
2017-09-20: Evolution of data structures in Yandex.Metrica.
2017-09-19: Why Keccak is not ARX.
2017-09-19: Fuzzing Tales 0x01: Yadifa DNS.
2017-09-19: Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing to India, China, and the Philippines.
2017-09-19: Undercover police operation to catch close-pass overtaking reduced cyclist casualties by 20%.
2017-09-19: To type or not to type: 15% of JavaScript bugs detectable by TypeScript or Flow.
2017-09-19: Simple Set game proof stuns mathematicians, leading to advances in combinatorics.
2017-09-19: An efficient academic journal.
2017-09-18: Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987)
2017-09-18: The future of HHVM, Facebook's fast PHPish runtime.
2017-09-18: Optionsbleed: HTTP OPTIONS method can leak a misconfigured Apache server's memory.
2017-09-17: Fuchsia: Google's modular, capability-based, non-Unix operating system.
2017-09-17: ptexplore: Linux process page table explorer.
2017-09-17: Pirate black open access is trumping green and gold and we must change our approach to academic journals.
2017-09-16: Interview with Martha Wells about the second Murderbot book.
2017-09-17: Root causes of TLS certificate errors for Google Chrome users.
2017-09-16: The week my husband left and my house was burgled I secured a grant to begin the BRCA1 project.
2017-09-16: The Minskytron: early graphics demos on an in-browser PDP-1 emulator.
2017-09-16: The Minsky circle algorithm.
2017-09-16: proptest: Hypothesis-style property testing for Rust.
2017-09-16: ZARM: the Bremen microgravity drop tower.
2017-09-16: A working game of Tetris implemented in Conway's Game of Life.
2017-09-16: How not to land a SpaceX orbital rocket booster. (YouTube)
2017-09-16: LoRa backscatter: data transmission over >400m using <10μW.
2017-09-16: A translation of the Polari in "Putting on the Dish".
2017-09-16: A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men.
2017-09-16: e-dumper: the world's largest electric vehicle.
2017-09-15: Where are you on the IPv6 adoption curve?
2017-09-15: Rising CO2 and the great nutrient collapse.
2017-09-15: Rich's B compiler
2017-09-15: RFC 8187: the first RFC containing non-ASCII characters.
2017-09-15: Meet the font detectives who ferret out fakery.
2017-09-15: Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload.
2017-09-15: Google's influence over its network of influencers.
2017-09-14: migra: like diff for PostgreSQL schemas; migrations made almost painless.
2017-09-14: The origins of malloc().
2017-09-14: Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception.
2017-09-14: Compile-time Mandelbrot set in Rust.
2017-09-13: Formally verified cryptography for Firefox 57.
2017-09-14: Proporti.onl: gender distribution of people you follow and your followers on Twitter.
2017-09-13: Flying economy class is so cramped it could be a death trap.
2017-09-13: Here's what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers.
2017-09-13: Reconstruction of a train wreck: how priming research went off the rails. (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow)
2017-09-12: Announcing Topicbox: FastMail's new product for teams.
2017-09-11: Nearby houses with "twin" street addresses.
2017-09-11: White shark kayak: the origin of the fake picture of the shark in the flooded road.
2017-09-11: A copyright vote that could change the EU's Internet.
2017-09-11: The proposed European copyright directive's effects on open source software development.
2017-09-11: How to find out if/why a server is dropping packets.
2017-09-10: How f.root-servers.net has performed since Cloudflare joined its anycast cloud.
2017-09-10: How Brexit will affect your human rights.
2017-09-10: Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours, but at this point, he can't just let his art do the talking.
2017-09-10: The problem with calling women 'females'.
2017-09-10: Has the Voynich manuscript really been solved?
2017-09-10: The Network and Information Systems Directive's effect on Internet companies in the UK.
2017-09-10: Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
2017-09-10: .uk domain transfers are scary.
2017-09-09: The Corpus Christi prime.
2017-09-09: Identity fraud, credit reports, and you.
2017-09-09: Things found on GitHub: shell history.
2017-09-09: A guide to filtered permeability.
2017-09-09: On the discussion of security vulnerabilities. (1853)
2017-09-09: The "premium mediocre" life of Maya Millennial.
2017-09-09: Download 67,000 historic maps from Stanford's David Rumsey map collection.
2017-09-09: A first look at CoreDNS.
2017-09-07: The solution to the Voynich manuscript.
2017-09-07: The Uncomfortable: a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects.
2017-09-07: serve-stale in BIND: Akamai's contribution to DNS / Internet resiliency.
2017-09-07: Infosec incident response: protecting individual rights under the GDPR.
2017-09-07: Performance evaluation of elfmalloc, a general-purpose malloc() replacement written in Rust.
2017-09-07: In defence of NAT.
2017-09-07: Mison: a fast non-FSM-based JSON parser.
2017-09-07: Optimizing nginx on Linux for high throughput and low latency at Dropbox.
2017-09-07: Librsvg's build infrastructure: autotools and Rust.
2017-09-07: 5 tips for writing small CLI tools in Rust.
2017-09-06: How to recognize burnout before you're burned out.
2017-09-05: Some were meant for C: the endurance of an unmanageable language.
2017-09-06: Surfing uncertainty: the predictive processing model of human cognition.
2017-09-06: British antifa before and after World War II.
2017-09-06: Wind is one of the cheapest sources of electricity, and it's getting cheaper.
2017-09-06: Wind farms are not the bird slayers they're made out to be.
2017-09-06: A serf on Google's farm.
2017-09-06: Google: time to return to not being evil.
2017-09-05: Efficient air-conditioning beams heat into space.
2017-09-05: Solaris to Linux migration 2017.
2017-09-05: Is systemd's hand-rolled dbus-over-ssh tunnel a security worry?
2017-09-05: Game of registrars: an empirical analysis of post-expiration domain name takeovers.
2017-09-05: ansible-lint: Best practices checker for Ansible.
2017-09-05: Invisible Manipulation: 10 ways our data is being used against us.
2017-09-05: Zero-confirmation .uk domain hijacking with eNom.
2017-09-05: SharknAT&To: grievous vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems.
2017-09-04: Clear Containers and CRI-O: a VM per Kubernetes container, without Docker.
2017-09-04: Claude Shannon: mathematician, engineer, genius... and juggler?
2017-09-04: The vacuity of postmodernist methodology.
2017-09-04: Six year old PDF loop bug affects most major implementations.
2017-09-04: Quantum reconstruction: rewriting the axioms of quantum theory from scratch, to understand what it all means.
2017-09-04: Outlawing war? The Kellogg-Briand pact actually worked.
2017-09-04: Multiple perspectives on technical problems and solutions: architecture review at Etsy.
2017-09-04: Google cloud load balancer outage postmortem.
2017-09-04: The Netherlands: an agricultural giant showing what the future of farming could look like.
2017-09-03: Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? (For modern versions, yes.)
2017-09-03: Is there winning strategy in Tetris? (In general, no.)
2017-09-03: Perl as PID 1 under Docker.
2017-09-03: An introduction to managing secrets safely with version control systems.
2017-09-02: Brexit talks cannot succeed.
2017-09-02: LuaTeX comes of age.
2017-09-01: Barriers to equality in academia: women in computer science at MIT. (1983)
2017-09-01: F*: an ML-like functional programming language aimed at program verification.
2017-08-31: Following Hurricane Katrina, an amazing decade of climate research.
2017-08-31: Does disabling Wi-Fi prevent my Android phone from sending Wi-Fi frames?
2017-08-30: A Polaroid-style Raspberry Pi camera that prints a GIF instantly.
2017-08-31: Reducing Python's startup time.
2017-08-31: Concurrent JavaScript: It can work!
2017-08-30: Gifpop: turn your GIFs into lenticular prints.
2017-08-30: "Torrential": a cruelly ironic etymology.
2017-08-30: Fully automatic DNSSEC delegation updates at CZ.NIC with FRED and Knot.
2017-08-30: Relaxed-memory concurrency synchronization patterns.
2017-08-30: Urban maths: tipping point, or, what is the bias of perfect dice?
2017-08-30: Eyes change over time, thwarting iris scanners.
2017-08-30: How to use `dig` to find details of the Google Public DNS cluster you are using.
2017-08-30: Hurricane Harvey didn't come out of the blue. Now is the time to talk about climate change.
2017-08-30: Don't fall for Babylonian trigonometry hype.
2017-08-29: Fascinating experiments that show what happens when mercury and aluminium are combined. (video)
2017-08-29: Hurricane Harvey is what climate change looks like.
2017-08-29: How to make Python run as fast as Julia.
2017-08-28: What makes a good REPL?
2017-08-28: Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented US Government High Assurance Platform mode.
2017-08-28: AWS Parameter Store: the right way to manage secrets with AWS.
2017-08-28: 6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten.
2017-08-28: Akira Miyagawa live orchestral mashup: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 vs Mambo No. 5. (YouTube)
2017-08-28: On (respect for) children as autonomous human beings.
2017-08-28: Attack of the 50 foot blockchain! Bitcoin, Ethereum, and smart contracts.
2017-08-27: Where in Europe does an electric car reduce CO2 emissions?
2017-08-26: Two spirits, one heart, five genders: how Europeans tried to extinguish Native American views on gender.
2017-08-26: How the music of Rogue One links to A New Hope.
2017-08-25: Rules for new FPGA designers.
2017-08-25: Threading the celestial needle: catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 feet.
2017-08-25: How to piss off a failed super-soldier.
2017-08-25: Better letterer: comic lettering tips.
2017-08-25: VW's strike in Slovakia exposes a European divide.
2017-08-25: Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA.
2017-08-25: How American bank payments (ACH) work: A developer perspective.
2017-08-25: On crimes and punishments, torture and retribution, deterrence and Beccaria.
2017-08-25: Enlightenment technology; A culture of growth: the origins of the modern economy.
2017-08-25: On progress and historical change.
2017-08-24: Got Phish: how/where to report malicious web sites.
2017-08-24: Here at the end of all things: on losing oneself in maps of fantasy worlds:
2017-08-24: What made the Moon? New ideas try to rescue a troubled theory.
2017-08-24: We're racing towards another private debt crisis, so why did no one see it coming?
2017-08-24: Rethinking the dbus message bus.
2017-08-24: D as a better C.
2017-08-23: The only 4 spaghetti recipes you'll ever need.
2017-08-23: Mathematicians tame rogue waves, illuminating future of LED lighting.
2017-08-23: The beauty of Bresenham's algorithm.
2017-08-22: Hackers are the real obstacle for self-driving vehicles.
2017-08-22: IPv6, large UDP packets, and the DNS.
2017-08-22: Reverse engineering a 1970s DTMF dialler chip.
2017-08-22: Typing with pleasure, and low latency.
2017-08-22: Four MLs (and a Python).
2017-08-21: Starting Star Wars: How George Lucas came to create a galaxy.
2017-08-21: Inequality in the USA: understanding the historic divergence between productivity and a typical worker's pay.
2017-08-20: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent ANS compression.
2017-08-20: How do I improve my storytelling?
2017-08-20: "I teach dirty tricks": the explosives expert who shows armies how to deal with terrorists.
2017-08-20: Everything you always wanted to know about optical fibre networking, but were afraid to ask.
2017-08-20: BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon: CIA SSH hacking tools.
2017-08-19: Why PS4 downloads are so slow.
2017-08-19: A crash course on ML modules.
2017-08-19: Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them.
2017-08-19: Towards a JavaScript binary AST.
2017-08-19: Vue.js vs React.
2017-08-19: What next in programming languages?
2017-08-19: What a border collie taught a linguist about language.
2017-08-18: NASA's sound suppression water system.
2017-08-18: How Postgres makes transactions atomic.
2017-08-17: At last, a big, successful trial of probiotics.
2017-08-17: Hands on with the SHACamp 2017 badge.
2017-08-17: Dilution of whisky and flavour: a molecular perspective.
2017-08-17: The origin of complex life on Earth just got a little less mysterious.
2017-08-17: Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial.
2017-08-16: The dwarfs of our vocabulary: etymologies of small words.
2017-08-16: APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning.
2017-08-15: Iris: a scalable, accurate, and ethical method to measure global manipulation of DNS resolution.
2017-08-15: The Meson build system, used by GTK/Gnome.
2017-08-15: rustgo: calling Rust from Golang with near-zero overhead.
2017-08-14: German universities take on Elsevier.
2017-08-14: The reasons HMS Queen Elizabeth has two islands.
2017-08-14: Consistent hashing with bounded loads.
2017-08-13: A theory of jerks: Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around?
2017-08-11: The end of Libor.
2017-08-11: OpenGeofiction: a map of an imaginary world, created by a community of worldbuilders.
2017-08-12: Hyperscan: a high-performance PCRE-compatible multiple regex matching library.
2017-08-11: British bank regulators are abandoning LIBOR, the benchmark for hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial transactions.
2017-08-11: UX brutalism.
2017-08-11: Small functions considered harmful.
2017-08-11: Compromise on checkout: vulnerabilities in gIt and other SCM tools.
2017-08-11: Crafting plausible fantasy maps.
2017-08-11: Font-size: an unexpectedly complex CSS property.
2017-08-11: Why Github can't host the Linux kernel.
2017-08-10: Scrapmetal: scrap your boilerplate in Rust.
2017-08-10: Why does Sattolo's algorithm produce a permutation with exactly one cycle?
2017-08-10: For fans of the movie WARGAMES: a list of all the nuclear war scenarios stored in the W.O.P.R. computer.
2017-08-09: IETF 99 DNS activity.
2017-08-08: Approaching the physical limits of storage technology.
2017-08-08: Counting quotient filter: making every bit count. (Better than Bloom filters!)
2017-08-08: Localhost entries in DNS zones can lead to "same site" scripting web vulnerabilities.
2017-08-07: Tolkien's map and the messed-up mountains of Middle-Earth.
2017-08-07: "Not even wrong!" Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory?
2017-08-07: Why don't more quantum physicists subscribe to pilot wave theory?
2017-08-07: A brief history of quantum alternatives.
2017-08-07: Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support.
2017-08-07: An 18th-century horse that Eclipsed all the others.
2017-08-07: Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island's experiment.
2017-08-07: How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4?
2017-08-07: Why many smart contract use cases are simply impossible.
2017-08-07: Can a living creature be as big as a galaxy?
2017-08-05: Optimizing HAMT (hash array mapped tries) for fast and lean immutable JVM collections.
2017-08-05: What the ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence.
2017-08-05: Which DNS registries offer the best protection for domain owners?
2017-08-04: The slow currentTimeMillis().
2017-08-04: The languages which almost became CSS.
2017-08-04: The development of Chez Scheme.
2017-08-03: Users, clients, and servers: the robustness principle and the web.
2017-08-03: 306 million freely downloadable pwned passwords.
2017-08-03: Elsevier acquires bepress, increasing its hold on open access and institution repositories.
2017-08-02: TypeScript's type system is Turing complete.
2017-08-02: IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge.
2017-08-02: A practical guide to SQL transaction isolation levels.
2017-08-02: RTFM v2: real-time for the masses on a Cortex-M with Rust.
2017-08-02: Parsing NES ROM headers with nom and Rust.
2017-08-02: Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM.
2017-08-01: Brexiteers using Ireland.
2017-08-01: New evidence of British torture could overturn Northern Ireland ruling that became a blueprint for US torture.
2017-08-01: Review: Nabokov's favorite word is mauve: what the numbers reveal about [] writing.
2017-08-01: US DoD encyclopedia of ethical failure.
2017-08-01: see-phit: A C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing.
2017-08-01: Recursives in the wild: engineering authoritative DNS servers.
2017-07-31: Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fairness in WiFi.
2017-07-31: Dolphin Nintendo emulator ubershaders: a ridiculous solution to an impossible problem
2017-07-30: A rant on usable security: run-time sandboxes from static analysis?
2017-07-30: Medicine's women problem.
2017-07-29: An effective attack against the Argon2i hash function.
2017-07-29: No Dunkirk spirit can save Britain from Brexit defeat.
2017-07-29: The Evolution of Trust: a game to teach game theory.
2017-07-29: sandsifter: the x86 processor fuzzer.
2017-07-28: Confession of a C/C++ programmer.
2017-07-28: Farewell to systemd.
2017-07-28: How to remove systemd from a Debian installation.
2017-07-28: Sci-Hub's cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed, data analyst suggests.
2017-07-28: Project Snowflake: non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET.
2017-07-27: Bodging: making chair legs around High Wycombe.
2017-07-27: How to set up a cheap Chromebook for software development when travelling.
2017-07-26: Why Is the Internet Archive painstakingly preserving Ted Nelson's junk mail?
2017-07-26: Using BGP to acquire bogus TLS certificates.
2017-07-26: Defining the undefinedness of C.
2017-07-25: Why we rewrote Lua in JavaScript, to run in the browser.
2017-07-25: Karn: an admin-friendly tool for creating seccomp and apparmor profiles.
2017-07-25: A homemade robot that can crack a safe in 15 minutes. (video)
2017-07-25: Esperanto: european or asiatic language?
2017-07-25: Snopes faces an ugly legal battle.
2017-07-25: gocmdpev: A command-line PostgreSQL query visualizer in Golang.
2017-07-24: Fingerprint-based detection of DNS hijacks using RIPE Atlas.
2017-07-24: Burglary, robbery, kidnapping and a shoot-out over… a domain name?!
2017-07-24: Anthony Burgess' lost dictionary of slang.
2017-07-23: Fast-key-erasure random-number generators.
2017-07-23: How economists rode maths to become our era's astrologers.
2017-07-23: mod_md: built-in Let's Encrypt (ACME) support for Apache httpd.
2017-07-23: The future of education is plain text.
2017-07-22: The incredible shitness of Solidity, the Ethereum progamming language.
2017-07-22: SQLCipher: encrypted SQLite database store.
2017-07-22: Free-libre / open source software (FLOSS) is commercial software.
2017-07-22: colorForth replaces punctuation with colours.
2017-07-22: Monospaced programming fonts with ligatures.
2017-07-21: Is "information is physical" contentful?
2017-07-21: Long term data storage will be much less free than it used to be.
2017-07-21: Custom dynamically sized types are super annoying in Rust at the moment. (qp)
2017-07-21: How to trick Symantec to revoke a cert with a fake private key, and how to check keys properly.
2017-07-20: A FPGA friendly 32 bit RISC-V CPU implementation in SpinalHDL.
2017-07-20: How Checkers was solved.
2017-07-20: How devastating was the Black Death?
2017-07-20: The hidden dungeons of the London Underground.
2017-07-20: The mystery of the hanging S3 downloads: a TCP debugging tale.
2017-07-20: Faces of open source software.
2017-07-20: LeoCAD: LEGO model designer.
2017-07-20: Undefined behavior and unsafe code guidelines for Rust.
2017-07-19: On the (perceived) value of EV TLS certs.
2017-07-19: Certified malice: phishing sites and TLS certs.
2017-07-19: Fast complex arithmetic is complicated in C and C++.
2017-07-19: Every place we used to think was a planet (until we knew better).
2017-07-19: Playing for third place: the media vs database marketing.
2017-07-19: Digital towbars for autonomous vehicles.
2017-07-18: Bugs Everywhere: a distributed bugtracker with which code and bugs are tracked together.
2017-07-18: A Mind at Play: how Claude Shannon invented the information age. (book review)
2017-07-17: Introducing Log::ger, a low-overhead Perl logging module.
2017-07-17: OVH 24h outage due to SAN failure following sudden power loss.
2017-07-17: A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector.
2017-07-17: Bangra: an LLVM-based programming infrastructure for high performance with multi-stage compilation at runtime.
2017-07-16: hobbes: Morgan Stanley's Haskell-like programming language.
2017-07-17: owl: an OCaml numerical library.
2017-07-17: Modular type classes.
2017-07-16: git-dit: a decentralized issue tracker for git.
2017-07-17: What are Haskellers' critiques of F# and OCaml?
2017-07-17: What are OCamlers' critiques of Haskell?
2017-07-17: Modular implicits for O'Caml.
2017-07-17: Koka: a functional programming language with effect inference.
2017-07-17: Poly/ML: a multiprocessor implementation of Standard ML.
2017-07-16: Do you know what a stinkpipe is?
2017-07-15: Beginner-friendly Vulkan graphics API tutorials.
2017-07-15: Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized.
2017-07-15: Password Store aka pass: the standard Unix password manager.
2017-07-15: rax: A radix tree implementation in ANSI C for Redis.
2017-07-15: Real system failures at NASA.
2017-07-14: Life in a universe with 2 time dimensions.
2017-07-14: Why 1Password is no longer recommended by security experts.
2017-07-13: Understanding the .io TLD's DNS configuration vulnerability.
2017-07-13: Towards Golang 2.
2017-07-13: binctr: getting towards real sandbox containers.
2017-07-13: Orpheus's Lyre puts Kerberos to sleep!
2017-07-13: The Facebook algorithm mom problem.
2017-07-13: How Discord scaled Erlang/Elixir to 5,000,000 concurrent users.
2017-07-13: Superconducting quantum levitation on a 3π Möbius strip. (YouTube)
2017-07-12: The cost of hard drives in recent years.
2017-07-12: A French mathematician has proved that we know all kinds of convex pentagons that tile the plane.
2017-07-12: Life is about to get a whole lot harder for websites without HTTPS.
2017-07-12: Renaming of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
2017-07-12: Looking at DNS traces: What do we know about resolvers?
2017-07-12: The semver trick: how to avoid complicated coordinated library API upgrades in Rust.
2017-07-12: Rewriting Zopfli from C to Rust.
2017-07-12: Antarctic ice shelf Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg.
2017-07-12: Is decentralized storage sustainable?
2017-07-12: Unjust, unreasonable, and unduly discriminatory: electric utility rates and the campaign against rooftop solar.
2017-07-12: Linux and GPL defense: "once the lawyers are involved, you have lost".
2017-07-12: ES6 In Depth: Symbols.
2017-07-12: Vector packet processing (VPP): one terabit software router.
2017-07-11: Office and residential buildings use more energy per square metre of floor area the taller they are.
2017-07-11: Turning tweets into vector images.
2017-07-11: The .io error: a problem with bad optics, but little substance.
2017-07-10: The .io error: don't make your TLD name servers available for others to register.
2017-07-11: Evolution of the LEGO logo.
2017-07-11: How Rust is tested.
2017-07-10: aRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R.
2017-07-11: A more detailed report of the Gandi domain hijacking incident.
2017-07-11: LLVM x86 backend can introduce branches that depend on uninitialized values, upsetting valgrind.
2017-07-10: Smooth as butter: achieving 60 FPS animations with CSS3.
2017-07-10: Next-generation Subversion unveiled.
2017-07-10: Dynamic tracing in Linux user and kernel space.
2017-07-10: Hello, United Kingdom, it's the United States of America here, and we need to talk.
2017-07-10: Security improvements in Linux v4.12.
2017-07-10: Linux tracing systems and how they fit together.
2017-07-10: Windows 10 process exit performance regression: 24-core CPU and I can't move my mouse.
2017-07-09: The language server protocol (LSP/RLS) and IDEs.
2017-07-10: "I no longer feel like I can trust `init` to do the sane thing." - Linus.
2017-07-09: Postgres job queues and failure by MVCC.
2017-07-09: Why people from Manchester are Mancunians, and other demonyms.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>